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For millions of people, Peggy Dillard-Toone is instantly recognizable. As a leading model in the world of fashion, she has been featured on the covers of international fashion and glamour magazines, like Cosmopolitan, Essence, Ebony and Mademoiselle, becoming the second African-American woman to appear on the cover of Vogue. By her senior year in college, Dillard-Toone had already made her mark in the North American, European and Japanese worlds of high fashion. Dillard-Toone graduated at the age of 16 with a strong interest in architecture. Awarded a full-scholarship by J.E. Sirrine Architectural Firm, she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., to attend Pratt Institute of Technology, earning a bachelors degree in the fine arts, with an emphasis on advertising, fashion merchandising and marketing. She is highly respected world-wide as a pioneer for African-Americans in the international fashion arena. For more than ten years, Dillard-Toone has owned and operated Turning Heads Salon, one of New York City’s most renowned black hair care salons. Spirituality is an important part of Dillard-Toone’s life. Dillard-Toone and her husband, the artist Lloyd Toone, moved to Harlem 18 years ago and restored a 110-year old Victorian mansion. It is one of two holistic-style bed and breakfast locations known as Villas de Toone. The second location is a ranch in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Tess La Bella is an award-winning, Author , SAG-AFTRA voice-over artist, actor, comic, producer and just for fun chef. Though theater and storytelling, Tess combined animation voice-over with her passion for children’s literacy. She’s personified everyone from the big bad wolf to Mrs. Claus.